Mestrado Wars, The phantom menace…

I just bought: 'Toponym Resolution in Text: Annotation, Evaluation and Applications of Spatial Grounding of Place Names' by Jochen L. Leidner

The problem of automatic toponym resolution, or computing the mapping from occurrences of names for places as found in a text to an unambiguous spatial footprint of the location referred to, such as a geographic latitude/longitude centroid is difficult to automate due to insufficient and error-prone geographic databases, and a large degree of place name ambiguity: common words need to be distinguished from proper…